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The transcript pretty much speaks for itself.
Democrats have been carrying on for months over this US attorney issues and have 6 months, 8,500 pages of documents and 14 witnesses they still NO hard evidence of any laws being broke.
I wish I had video of this because Feingold?s answer sounds pretty pathetic.
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Also if you go to the link you will learn that it is VERY likely that Gonzales did not perjure himself when he spoke about the NSA program in the hospital.
Democrats have been carrying on for months over this US attorney issues and have 6 months, 8,500 pages of documents and 14 witnesses they still NO hard evidence of any laws being broke.
I wish I had video of this because Feingold?s answer sounds pretty pathetic.
LINK
Two chances to mention any proof of a crime and the best Feingold can do is ask for more investigations and hearings.WALLACE: Meanwhile, this week a House committee held two White House aides in contempt, and a Senate committee issued a subpoena for Karl Rove to testify, all in the investigation of the firing of U.S. attorneys.
Senator, so far, Congress has been investigating this issue all year. You've heard from 14 witnesses. You've received 8,500 pages of documents.
Can you point to a single smoking gun, any hard evidence, that the White House has done anything illegal?
FEINGOLD: I think clearly with regard to the NSA surveillance program that we've been talking about...
WALLACE: No, no, I'm talking about the U.S. attorneys, sir.
FEINGOLD: Well, I believe they probably have. I can't give you anything definitive on that, but I do believe there's been terrible misconduct and misleading approaches here.
And look. My view is that our first priority is getting us out of Iraq. We have had successes in terms of raising the minimum wage. We are going to pass a major lobbying and ethics bill. We've passed an energy bill. We've got the pay-go rule back in place. This is what we spent six months on.
But now we have started some accountability. This was a week of accountability ? a censure resolution proposal that I made, the call for the special counsel, the issuing of contempt orders.
This administration is trying to prevent us from learning the facts about these situations that you've asked me about. Until we can learn the facts, how do we know whether they have committed anything illegal?
That's something that we as members of Congress have an obligation to find out, not just a question of whether we should do it or shouldn't do it. We need to ask these questions or we're not doing our job.
WALLACE: But you know, I think the question is, is this really going anywhere? Is this substantive oversight or is this political theater?
I mean, the point is on the U.S. attorneys which we're talking about, six-month, seven-month investigation, 8,500 pages of documents, 14 witnesses, and you say yourself as a member of Senate Judiciary you haven't found any hard evidence that the White House has broken the law.
FEINGOLD: Well, I happen to think they probably did break the law here, but I don't think the investigation is over, and...
WALLACE: But do you have any evidence of that?
FEINGOLD: ... until we ? well, that's why we're asking for people like Karl Rove and others to come down and testify so we can actually examine the evidence.
We haven't had access to the evidence. How are you supposed to examine it when you can't look at it?
Also if you go to the link you will learn that it is VERY likely that Gonzales did not perjure himself when he spoke about the NSA program in the hospital.